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Greek mathematician and physicist Archimedes discovered —while taking a bath, legend has it— that if an object that is more dense than water is submerged in water then an amount of water equal to the volume of the object is displaced by that object.

A) that if an object that is more dense than water is submerged inB) that if we submerge an object, being more dense than water, inC) if an object more dense than water is submerged inD) if we submerge an object that is more dense than water inE) that if an object more dense than water were to be submerged in

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Greek mathematician and physicist Archimedes discovered —while taking a bath, legend has it— that if an object that is more dense than water is submerged in water then an amount of water equal to the volume of the object is displaced by that object.

A) that if an object that is more dense than water is submerged inB) that if we submerge an object, being more dense than water, inC) if an object more dense than water is submerged inD) if we submerge an object that is more dense than water inE) that if an object more dense than water were to be submerged in

1) discoveredare we taking about a noun a or a clause??if we are talking of a discovery of some item, we avoid THATBut if we are talking of an observation, making the part after discovered as a clause, USE that.C and D can be eliminated2) B can be easily eliminated for usage of BEING and awkward construction3) usage of werewere makes the portion SUBJUNCTIVE, which is not te case here when we look at the non-underlined portionE is eliminated on this point